Christina Stier

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

Quantifying Rhythmic and Arrhythmic Components of Brain Activity Brain activity comprises both rhythmic (periodic) and arrhythmic (aperiodic) components. These signal elements vary across healthy aging, and disease, and may make distinct contributions to conscious ...

Quantifying rhythmic and arrhythmic brain activity is a hot 🥵 topic. But how independent are the two components from one another? 🤔 In my latest work with @smfleming.bsky.social & @matlandry.bsky.social, I explore the relationship between the two.

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Poster with key data for the Young Scientist Retreat 2025. Dates: October 21–24, 2025, in Hamburg, Germany. Costs: €100 for members of DGPA and bioDGPS, €150 for members of DGPA or bioDGPS, €200 for non-members. Includes: 3 nights with meals and coffee breaks at a&o Hamburg City in a 2-bed room (Spaldingstr. 160, 20097 Hamburg). Eligibility: Doctoral students, postdocs, and junior professors (up to 8 years after PhD). Registration deadline: September 29, 2025, 16:00 CET. Note: Membership can be obtained with the YSR application to benefit from discounts."

🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de

Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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Presented my poster „Towards Personalized Neuroscience: Evaluating Individual-Level Information in Neural Mass Models“ at ICON2025! Grateful for the feedback and conversations about whole-brain modeling. Paper (hopefully) out soon!
#ICON2025 #CognitiveNeuroscience

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very interesting research management position at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH) in Tübingen 👇

News from ENIGMA-Epilepsy! 🧠

Our latest study links polygenic risk for TLE-HS to cortical thinning in kids—mirroring patterns in adult patients.

Early imaging-genetics insights could reveal interplay of epilepsy risk and phenotypes before symptoms emerge.

Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

High-Density EEG Source Localisation of averaged interictal epileptic Discharges validated by surgical Outcome - Scientific Data Scientific Data - High-Density EEG Source Localisation of averaged interictal epileptic Discharges validated by surgical Outcome

Interested in Epileptic Discharges? In need of a data set to validate your source reconstruction models based on clinical outcome? Check out our newest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Big thanks to B. Vorderwülbecke, S. Vuillémoz et al. ! - @seeber.bsky.social @cibm.bsky.social

Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6

🧠⏱️ New preprint!
We found that temporal prediction errors are more strongly encoded when an overt response is required, and this encoding occurs in motor rather than sensory space.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📢 Exciting News!

Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉

Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠

registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025

See you there! 👋

Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling Respiration dynamically modulates sensory perception by orchestrating transient states of the brain and the body. Using simultaneous recordings of high-density magneto-encephalography (MEG), respirati...

New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:

How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)

#neuroskyence

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks for organizing it ;-)

We also had the Posterblitz session 🎤 at our #PuG2025, where the following researchers presented their work: @danschfbg.bsky.social, @cstier.bsky.social, @gaertneranne.bsky.social, Anna-Lena Tebbe, Paula Lea Usemann, Hilmar Zech, Nils Wehner, and Emely Voltz 🥳👏

Do you work with #hormones? 🚶‍♂️🐁 🧫 Have you ever tried to share your data or worked with datasets and encountered challenges?

#NODES aims to develop a standard data format for hormones to remedy this.

Participate in our Delphi study to let us know what should be considered (open until mid June). ⬇️

Summary of the study. A: The schematic shows the experimental procedure, illustrating five weekly lab visits followed by 2 MR visits labeled from S1 to S7. After the first session (S1), participants undergo four weeks of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) combined with ecological momentary assessment (EMA). B: The CGM system uses a small flex sensor placed at the posterior upper arm that is inserted in the subcutaneous fatty tissue. The glucose sensor, positioned beneath the skin surface layers (epidermis and dermis), measures glucose levels in the interstitial fluid within the subcutaneous adipose tissue. The data is wirelessly sent via near field communication (NFC) to the FreeStyle Libre 3 app on the participant’s cell phone. The accuracy of the sensor concerning capillary glucose has been validated (Alva et al., 2022). C: Participants rate their metabolic and mood states twice daily using a visual analog scale (VAS), ranging from 0 (not at all) to 100 (very).

Do you get in a bad mood if you are hungry? Over 4 weeks with EMA+CGM, we tested if mood shifts are subconsciously driven by glucose levels or ratings of metabolic state #neuroskyence 🩺

Work w/ @kristinkaduk.bsky.social @akuehnel.bsky.social @derntllab.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tracking Age Through Brain Dynamics Our brains constantly change as we age, but our understanding of how these changes affect brain activity over a lifetime lags behind. Specifically, it has been unclear which aspects of brain activity ...

Here's a summary of the 'what' and 'why': www.growkudos.com/publications...

Thankful to all co-authors for their valuable contributions!
@eliobalestrieri.bsky.social @janafehring.bsky.social Niels Focke Andreas Wollbrink Udo Dannlowski @jgross.bsky.social

Temporal autocorrelation is predictive of age — out now!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We used @camcan-2010.bsky.social #MEG data and massive time-series feature extraction (hctsa) to understand which aspects of neural activity predict a person's age. #PNAS #aging #MEG #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Aaaand the paper is out on Imaging Neuroscience! 🤩

To learn about cool new (and old) features to be used in classifying M-EEG brain states, check it out:
doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Big thanks to all the co-authors and the reviewers for their great input 🫶

We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration The brain processes information from the external environment alongside signals generated by the body. Among bodily rhythms, respiration emerges as a key modulator of sensory processing. Multisensory ...

New year, new preprint out! 🧨
'Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration'

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great team effort w/ Andrea Zaccaro, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Marcello Costantini, @danlikesbrains.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social

#Neuroskyence #Interoception

Recording Multimodal Data During Daily Activities!

This example showcases simultaneous ECG and movement data (accelerometer & gyroscope) from an ECG belt and wristband. We recorded data during cycling, rest, daily tasks, walking, and running.

#Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #interoception #Spica

Congratulations, Deniz! 🥳

Just in time for #AES2024, let's grow this list of epilepsy imagers! go.bsky.app/HnaoTqF

My 1st message: “hello world”
My 2nd message: JOB ALERT- please share❗
We are looking for 1 PhD candidate If you are interested in #sleep and #memory reprocesing in aging, please get in touch!

New preprint for all those who are interested in brain network alterations in epilepsy and "only" have (low-density) routine EEG data available...

Happy we can now share the open access link for our recent review on interoception and MDD/anxiety:

sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

B³ lab PhD student @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social really pushed this one, she has some great translational interoception work lined up.